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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or freebsd as backbone router
Date: 19 Sep 1995 07:42:26 GMT
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) wrote:
>   Someday, perhaps.  Today, no.  I would say that FreeBSD or BSDI are
>   your only choices for Intel based solutions (SGI makes a nice box
>   too, but that's in quite a different price league! :-).
>
>*waves*  Hey Jordan.  We still run on Intel platforms, too... :-)

He wanted to run with the Emerging Technology boards though, and since ET
only provides binary drivers for FreeBSD, BSDI and Linux I figured that those
were the only alternatives.  No slight to NetBSD intended.

						Jordan